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INFO ROUTINE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE LONDON, HOME OFFICE CROYDON
HKGO FOR BEN TANG
HOME OFFICE FOR MS. E. HEBDEN, GROUP A, IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES : UK FAMILY REUNION CASES
OUT OF THE LIST OF 43 REFUGEES AND THE SECOND LIST OF 3 REFUGEES
SENT TO US ON 9 JANUARY AND 10 JANUARY:
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(A) ONLY 13 WERE SELECTED FROM THE LISTS OF 124 WHICH WE SENT
TO YOU:
(B) 7 ARE NOT (NOT) PEFUGEES:
(C) ONE HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 1983.
2. IT IS ONLY BY CONSIDERABLE EFFORT ON THE PART OF OUR IMMIGRATION
DEPARTMENT STAFF THAT WE HAVE MANAGED TO FIND, INTERVIEW AND
CONFIRM THAT 41 REFUGEES WILL LEAVE THIS MONTH. IN FACT ONLY 38
FROM YOUR LISTS WERE FOUND. BUT FECUNDITY RESULTED IN THREE
ADDITIONAL REFUGEES.
3. WE HAVE SCRAPED BY THIS MONTH MORE BY LUCK THAN GOOD
ORGANISATION. WE WOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO
BRING SOME SENSE OF ORDER TO THIS MATTER. WE CANNOT OVER-EMPHASISE
THE IMPORTANCE WHICH THE OTHER RESETTLEMENT COUNTRIES ATTACH TO A
REGULAR OFFTAKE OF 40 PER MONTH TO UK. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT
HMG IS DELIBERATELY SABOTAGING THE OFFTAKE SO AS TO PREVENT A
RESPONSE FROM OTHERS AND THEREBY NOT (NOT) HAVE TO TAKE THE FURTHER
LIMITED NUMBER OF REFUGEES. CONVOLUTED THOUGH THIS MAY BE, IT DOES
INDICATED THE CLOSE ATTENTION BEING PAID TO THIS MATTER.
4. WE MUST MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO MAINTAIN A REGULAR OFFTAKE OF 40
PER MONTH. WE WOULD BE GRATEFUL TO KNOW WHY THIS IS PROVING SO
DIFFICULT. IF THERE IS ANYTHING WE CAN DO, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
WOULD IT HELP IF WE SENT SOMEONE FROM HONG KONG TO ASSIST YOU?
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Ms HCBDEN, GROUP A
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